AN Army chief has led heartfelt tributes to a trailblazing female officer killed in a car crash.
Captain Lizzie Godwin, 28, was the first woman to earn a commission into the elite Household Cavalry.
Friends said she was driving home when her car collided with another in Surrey on Friday night.
Commanding officer Lt Col Tom Armitage called her a “talented, resourceful and compassionate troop leader”.
He said her death will leave “a huge void in the Household Cavalry family”, adding: “History may record Lizzie as the first female officer in the Army’s most senior regiment.
“But I know she would want to be recalled as a tough and talented young officer doing her utmost to serve king and country and to lead and inspire soldiers.”
Originally from Devon, Lizzie won a military scholarship before studying nursing at King’s College London and serving in the Army Reserves.
In her short but stellar military career, she won the Sword of Honour at Sandhurst and a medal at the Cambrian Patrol competition — one of the toughest in the world.
She played hockey and polo for the Army, and rode at the Queen’s funeral and the King’s Coronation.
The Household Cavalry Regiment, into which she was commissioned in 2020, hailed her as “an utterly dedicated officer who worked tirelessly and always for the good of her soldiers”.
Captain Lizzie Godwin, 28, the first woman to earn a commission into the elite Household Cavalry, has died in a car crash Published: [#item_custom_pubDate]
